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L 182?

posted 17 years ago by adamwarlock
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The film should be called The Passion or A Passion rather than The passion of Anna which was it's title in the US release. However, the only title I saw at the start was L 182, what's that mean?

[–] djebel714 15 years ago

dito to adam's question.
also: at the end of the film in black typeface: SLUT. is that swedish for END or does it have to do with the lack of a formal title?

[–] JackBluegrass 12 years ago

Marc Gervais (film reviewer and Jesuit priest) says in a special feature on the MGM DVD that "slut" is translated into English as, "the end".

For those thinking that Bergman ended his film with yet another of his many metaphors, Gervais says jokingly that the Swedish word means only, "the end", and is intended to have no other meaning.

[–] jlent 15 years ago

I saw the movie on a theater years ago and it had a proper title. The DVD that's out now has L 182 as the title and I too would love an explanation. The film itself looks the same as it always has.

[–] Harold_Robbins 15 years ago

I noticed that as well, but later connected it with Josephson's many boxes of photographic studies.

"Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke."

[–] davycrocket 15 years ago

Yes slut means end or finish as far as i am aware.

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[–] rederiet 13 years ago

"L 182" was the production number of the film and according to the Swedish Film Institute an alternative title (http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?itemid=4837&ty pe=MOVIE&iv=Titles). It's also seen written on the clapperboard before the interview scenes. You may see a photo of the script incl the number @ http://www.ingmarbergman.se/closeup.asp?guid=BF188582-05EB-496D-9046-9 FE73578CCFE&LanCD=EN&item=73ECF5E7-6AF6-4633-B4DC-27AD5B8AFFBA .
I tried to add this alternative title to IMDb but wasn't allowed as it only contains capital letters (well, it's obviously just one and then 3 digits).

While the US DVD contains the "L 182" title the UK DVD contains nothing (it's just all white), interesting though that it had a proper title when shown in theatres - however it seems "L 182" was present on at least the Swedish copies, from reading the synopsis @ http://www.ingmarbergman.se/page.asp?guid=1A4E2FD8-FC50-45F9-B614-9F8A 0D317ADE (in Swedish only).

As for the connection to the photo boxes that is still an interesting thought (one has the number "LL 100", for example) - maybe the box numbering was inspired by the production number, which was then used as an alternative title as if the movie itself showed the contents of one of the boxes...